Word: medici
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is important is the remarkable stability and success of Brazil's decade-old right-wing dictatorship. Its achievement has far-reaching implications, a fact that President Nixon accurately noted in an ebullient 1971 salute to the visiting Medici: "As Brazil goes, so will the rest of the Latin American continent." That encomium caused brass buttons to pop on Brazilian uniforms. It also chilled the political leaders of Brazil's neighbors-notably Argentina-who fear the imperial ambitions of a new "colossus on the make...
...chance against the country's ruling military dictatorship and its candidate, General Ernesto Geisel. Though the generals tried to give the election the trappings of democracy, they had no intention of losing. Portly, white-haired Geisel was hand-picked last summer by Outgoing President General Emilio Medici...
...Brazilians, one hospital bed for every 4,000, and no medical care of any kind in over a third of Brazil's municipalities. Although tuberculosis, Chagas's disease, and malaria are spreading, Brazil has spent less per capita on health than even Nicaragua. As Brazil's President Medici said, "The economy is doing fine, but the people aren...
...Cirne Lima, the Minister of Agriculture, sent a letter of resignation to President Medici. Visao magazine, the equivalent of Time for Brazil, said that when opposition is stifled in other parts of society, it emerges in the topmost levels...
...Brazil and Chile demonstrate, U.S. business mechanisms for the control and exploitation of Latin America are becoming more efficient. It's no wonder that other Latin American countries reacted negatively to President Nixon's welcome to Brazil's President Medici in 1971: "As Brazil goes, so will go the rest of that Latin American continent." The future of Brazil's present government depends on its relationship with the United States. For the people of Brazil--as in Chile and throughout Latin America--U.S. involvement has only prevented social and economic equality